Can A Middle-Aged Neophyte Make It to Carnegie Hall?

Gary Marcus suffers from what a friend jokingly describes as congenital arrhythmia–the inability, despite many hours of his youth spent practicing and taking lessons, to learn to play a musical instrument. A few years ago Marcus, a cognitive psychologist at New York University, decided at 38 to make one last try when he took up guitar. No surprise: He did not succeed in becoming the next Jimi Hendrix, but managed to acquire a modicum of skill–and went on to describe his experience in Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning

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Can A Middle-Aged Neophyte Make It to Carnegie Hall?